7 Responses to OPEN THREAD

  1. pounce_uk says:
    July 20, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    The bBC, weight lifting for Asians and half the story.

    More Asian teens 'using steroids'
    A growing number of young Asians are using steroids to try and build up muscle and achieve the perfect body, according to drugs workers.John Bolloten, a needle exchange co-ordinator in Bradford, said the number of Asians using his centre has jumped from about 5% to between 25% and 30%….Needle exchange centres in Luton have also reported a significant increase in Asian men using their services. They said 84% of Asians visiting them take steroids.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8158081.stm

    The bBC reports on the rise of drug taking amongst the Asian population in which to achieve that perfect body. The thing is as an Asian who has family in Bradford I know that the Hindu population in that city is tiny, in fact so tiny as to be almost invisible (1% as opposed to 16.5% of the total population)and I can say almost the same for Luton(2.7% against 14.6%). Yet instead of naming and shaming the correct peoples the bBC blurs the story to represent all people with dark skin who hark from the Sub-continent.
    Just another example of how the bBC will bend over backwards in which to promote half the story.

    The bBC, weight lifting for Asians and half the story.

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  2. Not a sheep says:
    July 20, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    My Hindu friends get really irritated when stories about "Asians" hit the news and hey are actually about "Muslims". They get especially irritated because to the devout Muslim, Hindus are followers of an inferior pantheist religion.

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  3. Martin says:
    July 20, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    I see that Vince Cable has been allowed to spout bollocks on the BBC again.

    The old fart was waffling on about the Tories plan to give control BACK to the Bank of England (which had run things rather well for decades) saying this was wrong.

    So what is st Vince's great plan then? Er well he doesn't have one. As usual her didn't have to answer one tough question on the BBC.

    They he waffled on about how the state controlled banks were not lending money to "good British firms". So St Vince just how would you make them lend money? Again St Vince gives no actual answer.

    Then St Vince attacked the Tories over breaking up the large banks yet his proposal?… er to break up the large banks.

    Vince Cable really is a retard.

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  4. John Bosworth says:
    July 20, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    An excerpt from the BBC web page "Who are the Taliban?"

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1549285.stm

    "The Taliban in Afghanistan was accused of providing a sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda movement who were blamed for the (9/11) attacks."

    This should, of course, read:

    "The Taliban in Afghanistan provided sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden who planned the 9/11 attacks" attacks"

    Enough with the "was accused" and "were blamed". There is no wiggle room here. These are C12th murdering thugs. Say so.

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  5. Liquid says:
    July 20, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    Are the bodybuilding muslims doing it for narcissism – or preparation for some terrorist attack or simply to look 'ard whilst doing all that naughty street stuff?

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  6. George R says:
    July 20, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Is the BBC pleased or indifferent to Labour's latest
    U-turn on free speech?:

    'New English Review':

    "New Home Secretary Reverses Savage Ban"

    "WND reports:

    "WASHINGTON – Radio talker Michael Savage told WND he was 'stunned' by the quick decision by incoming United Kingdom Home Secretary Alan Johnson to scrap his predecessor's list of people banned from Britain – a list that included Savage along with Islamic hate preachers and terrorists.

    "Savage had sued outgoing Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for libel for listing him, along with 15 others, as 'least wanted' visitors in the country. Meanwhile, Smith's successor, Alan Johnson, called the move a terrible blunder and told the London Daily Mail he would scrap the policy of maintaining such enemies lists.

    "'I am stunned by this sudden sign of sanity in the U'But I won't believe it until they send a letter to me confirming it.'

    "Savage said he also demands an apology from Smith.

    "Johnson said Smith had no right to put Savage, the third highest rated radio talker in America, on the same list as a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, a skinhead gang leader and a Hezbollah militant.

    "Last week, Jacqui Smith admitted she was not up to being home secretary, saying she should have been given some training for the job before being named.

    "'When I became home secretary I'd never run a major organization,' she told Total Politics magazine. 'I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills. I think we should have been better trained. I think there should have been more induction.'" …

    'New English Review' adds:

    "The question is, will Secretary Johnson apologize to Geert Wilders?"

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  7. Philip says:
    July 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    I notice some of the US bloggers are seizing on this as some kind of breakthrough story, claiming 'It woz Savage wot won it" – when they clearly didn't see the sucker punch coming:

    I'm not losing sleep over rising immigration numbers' says Home Secretary Alan Johnson, as he rules out imposing a cap">

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